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Knowledge Sysems in the Brain

kkollins at pop3.concentric.net kkollins at pop3.concentric.net
Fri Nov 20 19:47:44 EST 1998


Forgive me, Please, I must comment... bend, or remove, a connecting rod,
and, if the engine still runs, the engine's pistons flop around.

No lesion study can be invoked to support the "existence" of funcational
"independence" within the nervous system, be-cause the complete Integration
that exists within the nervosu system is Broken in the lesion.. (Note well,
I'm =not= saying that there Exists no topologically-distributed "functional
specificity". Of course, there is. It's just that all such functional
specificity becomes Non-Functional when the nervous system's Total
Integration is Broken, as is always the case in lesion studies. All of this
follows from the fact that, to achieve "consciousness" everything that
occurs within nervous systems must be "translated" into the abstract, TD
E/I-minimization "language" of the nervous system... =only then= can
"meaning" be extracted, and distributed, within the nervous system. The
lesion breaks the necessary TD E/I-minimization Integration. The remainder
"seeks" TD E/I(min) within the stuff that remains post-lesion. Forgive me,
this's all very-old work. K. P. Collins (ken)

[P. S. I doubt that I'll be able to make it, but if I show up, will such be
too-"disruptive"? ken]

F. Frank LeFever wrote:

>             THE ORGANIZATION OF KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS IN THE BRAIN
>
>                      Elizabeth K. Warrington, Ph.D.
>             Dementia Research Group, National Hospital for
>             Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London
>
>                     6:00 pm, Monday, November 30, 1998
>                      The New York Academy of Sciences
>                       2 East 63rd St., New York City
>
> Neuropsychological studies of knowledge systems have brought to light
> some unexpected principles of organization.  Evidence for both modality
> and category specificity will be presented.  It will be argued that
> there are independent verbal and visual knowledge bases sub-served by
> left temporal lobe structures.
>
> Furthermore it will be argued that both these knowledge bases are
> categorical in their organizzaztion.  Specifically a patient with loss
> of knowledge of the category "living things" confined to the verbal
> domain and a patient with loss of knowledge of the category "inanimate
> artefacts" confined to the visual domain will be described.
>
> Patients in whom a modality by category interaction can be demonstrated
> are of particular significance for theoretical models of knowledge
> systems in the brain.
>
>               This is the New York Neuropsychology Group's
>               annual "supper" meeting; a joint meeting with
>               the Psychology Section and the Linguistic Section
>               of The New York Academy of Sciences.
>
>            The lecture begins at 6:00 pm, is free, and open to all.
>
>            Reception and supper which follow at 7:30 pm are optional,
>            and require reservations by Nov. 27 (Friday).
>            Contact Bruce Soffer (212) 838-0230, ext. 426
>                    bsoffer at nyas.org
>            Academy members $22, others $27.  STUDENTS $11.
>
> For NYNG info: F. Frank LeFever, Ph.D.
>                FAX (914) 786-4978 (voice 786-4110)
>                flefever at ix.netcom.com
>
> NYNG webpage: www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Lab/6117/index.html
>
> Academy webpage: www.nyas.org






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